Linkblogging For 19/04/12

I’m hoping to get the next Kinks post up tonight, but in the meantime here’s some links:

Bloated website code drains smartphone batteries. Obvious, of course, but nice to have some numbers on it. Look at those numbers, web designers, and think of just how much energy that javascript and flash monstrosity you’re coding is actually using. There’s a reason why I keep this site as plain as you can get with wordpress, and for the most part stick to just text.

And we’ve seen recently that Racist UKIP have started to pick up a lot of protest voters. This shows why that is very worrying — a councillor who’s a member of Racist UKIP and wants people on benefits to lose the right to vote. I can understand people not liking the current government and wanting to ‘send a signal’, but that signal shouldn’t be “we want to take the franchise away from poor people”.

In (I hope) better news, the new Beach Boys single has announced cover art. No release date yet, but sometime this month. Then we’ll know if the reunion was a great, or a terrible,idea.